Dan J Kroll, Author at Dan J Kroll

Run, run away from Fairmont Crest: Beyond the Gates Commentary for the week ending March 21, 2025. Soap Central founderDan J Kroll shares his opinions and editorial on daytime in a new home -- DanJKroll.com

Beyond the Gates commentary: Welcome to Fairmont Crest

For the first time since the 1900s, there's a new soap in town. And even though it's just started, Beyond the Gates is already delivering the ground-breaking soapy goodness that…

Dan J Kroll March 15, 2025

The top 40 songs this week in 1989according to the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Entertainment Music

The 80s Countdown: It all began in 1989

Well, well, well... look who it is. It's me! Nick is taking a bit of time away from writing his weekly column, so I decided to step in because this…

Dan J Kroll February 21, 2025

The blizzard of 2016 blankets Kroll Manor in nearly three feet of snow

Home and Garden Personal

Manor Makeover: That time it snowed penguins and polar bears

Let's start off this installment of the Manor Makeover series with a confession, so as not to cloud the integrity of the text that will follow. I do not like…

Dan J Kroll January 23, 2025

Entertainment

Hollywood Squares headed to CBS daytime lineup

What happens when tic-tac-toe meets a panel of nine celebrity guests? Why, Hollywood Squares, of course! Fresh off its its successful primetime launch, CBS will present a special daytime run…

Dan J Kroll January 23, 2025

Home and Garden Personal

Manor Makeover: The bathroom renovation that took five years

When you live in an old house, you have to expect that anything can happen at any time. I originally wrote that sentence a different way, but I am slightly…

Dan J Kroll November 15, 2024

Home and Garden Personal

Manor Makeover: The windows are the windows to the world

I have to say that windows never really excited me. Sure, when I pass by a church and see the beautiful stained glass I will often stop and admire them.…

Dan J Kroll October 30, 2024

Hess Mansion/Kroll Manor front landscape, seven years later

Home and Garden Personal

Manor Makeover: Changing the landscape of the Hess Mansion

It is hard to believe that today marks the ninth anniversary of the founding of Kroll Manor. Sure, the house stood for nearly 100 years before that... but I have…

Dan J Kroll October 9, 2024

Kroll Manor, also known as the Hess Mansion.

Home and Garden Personal

Manor Makeover: Ghosts of the Past

In a couple of weeks, it will be nine years since I made the move from Philadelphia to Kroll Manor, in my hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania. The reasons why are…

Dan J Kroll September 23, 2024

Personal

Pieces of my mind

For more than 30 years, the bulk of my time online has been spent talking about soap operas -- not that there's anything wrong with that. The truth is, I…

Dan J Kroll December 27, 2022